Ian Beesley's brilliant career retrospective exhibition LIFE has been wowing visitors at the 1853 Gallery at Salt Mills. Kickstarter will be launched next Wednesday.

‘Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all…’

The Comedy of Errors (Act 4 Scene 4)

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd;
We few, we happy few, we bag of clowns.

It’s just so relentlessly awful

1/ Congratulations to Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP on his appointment, the 5th BEIS Secretary of THIS Parliament. Fair play to him, one of his aliases was Michael Green, which could be a good sign. 🙂

No one is born racist
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Liverpool, 1980s
Photo Dave Sinclair

My grandad (in cap) was present when his pal Geordie Watson (2nd left) lost an arm down the pit at Blyth. When they went to see him afterwards at the RVI, Geordie opened his eyes and uttered the immortal words “well lads, I’ll have to get someone else to shuffle me dominoes now”

Rishi Sunak and his wife sit on a fortune of £730,000,000.

That’s around twice the estimated wealth of King Charles III.

Remember this whenever he talks about making “tough decisions” that working class people will pay for.

‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows’

“Still, on to Rishi. Who is this new leading man, with the hair of a latex Ronald Reagan mask, and the smile of a guy informing the camera: “Like Lord Sugar, I play to win”? Who is this highly acclaimed knitwear influencer…” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wonder if picking up three months taxpayer-funded severance payment for getting sacked from a job you did for a few weeks and then getting the job back six days later is the kind of thing a Tory government might want to crack down upon. What a shower of absolute charlatans

I’ve had a few requests but am not selling copies of the Outsiders book direct at the moment so the best way to get one is to order from Colin Wilkinson and steve henly using this link bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/outsid…

Appointing Suella Braverman as Home secretary just days after she was sacked for a security breach doesn’t smack of integrity, competence, professionalism or sensible politics. It’s just cynical manoeuvring. This PM’s no better than the last two.